Sex work has always been a diverse profession that exists in some form wherever sex exists But the stigmatized population of sex workers that the brunt of oppression and violence falls against is always one defined by markers of race, ethnicity and social class
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I don't know what was going through this specific shooter's head and I don't actually much care (nor do I think he's a reliable witness about his own motivations -- as though any of us is, but especially someone about to go on trial for murder)
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But I do know that it's absolutely true that while all sex workers are seen as disposable once they fully get hit with the stigma of "sex worker", there's obviously a huge range of how EASILY someone slides in the general public's mind from "human being" to "sex object"
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And that that dehumanization has to go pretty far for someone to think that ending a human being's life is justifiable as "removing temptation" from his own life -- that shooting a woman dead is the equivalent of putting a porn blocker on his laptop
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And the process of dehumanization is always -- ALWAYS -- easier if someone is defined as a different race from you That's what race is FOR That's what race IS
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That's why these fucking "Asian massage parlors" doing sex work under the table EXIST -- that's EXACTLY WHY white men like this feel comfortable patronizing them but would be skeeved out by buying sex from someone "who could be a girl you went to school with"
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The idea that "Oh, he's a fucked up sex addict, and Asian massage parlors are what was available to him, so it had nothing to do with race" is SO STUPID INCREDIBLY STUPID It's like you all said the words "structural racism" as this magic phrase you never tried to understand
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If racism only described to your personal disparate interactions between two people with the exact same socioeconomic status and profession then like 90% of racism wouldn't be racism That's the motive behind people who push the line of "I don't see race"
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More than that, the excuse (ridiculous as it is) about removing temptation makes no sense: of identified victims I've seen listed so far, one was over 70 years old, one in her 50s, and one a man in his 50s. A 21 year old man saw them as sexual temptations to be removed? Bullisht!
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The fact that this guy's initial self-described motive in "removing temptation" led to him bursting into a room and indiscriminately opening fire makes his excuse extra absurd, I agree But it's not like he'd be any better if he'd been more successful at his mission
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It's always RELEVANT when someone who claims to have committed their crimes to carry out some mission is a dipshit bumblefuck, like the Capitol insurrectionists That doesn't mean you can just let their statements about their mission pass by like the mission itself isn't evil
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Concur. It just makes the police statement seem even more obviously a cover-up. They are the ones, in my view, who are counting on us all buying the racist implication that "Asian spa" = sex work. And even if they're not lying, he's still a white supremacist murderer. Period.
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